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The Economist rather bizarrely - and with a touch of arrogance - foreshadows that if the conference outcomes are ignored it will simply confirm the superiority of the panel's intellectual analysis over the populist tendencies of the public and decision makers. "... The fact remains that governments already have very large aid budgets, which they apportion somehow among competing demands--doubtless paying more attention to the fluctuating pressures of press and television than any consistent or coherent method of analysis. Implicitly, their decisions already reflect underlying estimates of costs and benefits, but the process is arbitrary and closed to inspection. Even if the Copenhagen Consensus project does no more than force that fact to be acknowledged, it will have been worth the trouble," the Economist forlornly concludes. [http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2478902]

*[[Robert Mendelsohn]], Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor, Professor of Economics, and Professor in the School of Management. *[[Alan Manne]] professor emeritus of operations research at Stanford University. *[[Jacques van der Gaag]] Professor of Development Economics, University of Amsterdam, Dean of the Department of Economics and Econometrics. *[[Michael Intriligator]] Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Lomborg has foreshadowed that *[[Tony Addison]] Professor, Deputy Director, Project Director, Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the conference will include a number United Nations University (UNU) *[[Paul Schultz]] Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of as yet unspecified Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University. *[[Ludger Woessmann]] Dr. Head of Department, Research Department "opponentsHuman Capital and Structural Change", ifo Institute of Economic Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. *[[Charles Wyplosz]] Professor of Economics, and Director of the International Centre for Money and Banking Studies, Graduate Institute of International Economics, Geneva. *[[Peter Blair Henry]] Associate Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. *[[Jens Andvig]] Senior Researcher, Dr. philos (Ph. D) in Economics, University of Oslo *[[Jean Cartier-Bresson]] Professor of Economics, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France. *[[Peter Svedberg]] Professor of Development Economics, The Institute for International Economic Studies. *[[Simon Appleton]] Dr., Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham. *[[Mark Rosenzweig]], Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, at Kennedy School, Harvard. *[[Roger Böhning]], Director, Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, International Labour office, Geneva. *[[John Boland]], J.J. Hermans Professor of Chemistry *[[Jan Pronk]], Professor Theory and Practice of International Development, Institute of Social Studies. Former Minister for Development Cooperation, The Netherlands and Special Envoy Secretary General United Nations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. *[[Arvind Panagaryia]], Professor of Economics at Columbia University [http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.asp?ID=197]